2024 SUPERIOR SPECIFICATIONS

 ENGLISH FILE UPPER INTERMEDIATE 4th Ed. Units 6 to 10 (St's Book & Workbook)
 TASTE AND OTHER TALES: Taste - Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat - The
Way up to Heaven - The Leg of Lamb

OPTIONAL: Can you understand this text? Pages 65, 85 and 105

The coursebook gives intensive practice of the four skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing.

SPEAKING The purpose is both fluency and accuracy. Make your students give their opinions freely and
interact with their partners as naturally as possible. There are plenty of speaking activities with
stimulating topics.

VOCABULARY Every lesson in the book has a clear lexical aim. Many lessons are linked to the
Vocabulary Banks which help present and practise topic-based vocabulary in class and help for
revision.

LISTENING The listening material is motivating and usually challenging in terms of speed, length, variety
of accents and language difficulty but the tasks are always achievable. However, you can always resort
to the tapescript to do reading and listening if your students find a passage too difficult. Longer
listening exercises are broken into separate parts with different tasks to avoid memory overload.

VIDEO
Colloquial English: (6&7, 8&9) These lessons focus on an unscripted interview with a person who is an
expert in their field and on a conversation between three people answering a question related to the
lesson topic.
Video listening: (pp 63, 83 and 103) These instances of video help students further develop their listening
skills, so make the most of them.

For both the above we suggest you carry out some sort of pre-listening activities such as pre-leading
questions, explanation of vocabulary items used in the listening texts, research for information on the
character or topic in the listening passages if appropriate, etc.

Revise and Check: It’s 2-page section every two units. The right-hand page provides a series of skills-based
listening challenges in the street interviews included in the section called Can you understand these people?

LISTENING & VIDEO All the listening and video material can be found on The Teacher’s Resource
Centre, Classroom Presentation Tool, Online Practice, student’s eBook and the Class audio CDs.

EF STUDENT’S BOOK ONLINE PRACTICE For students to practise and develop their language skills.
Students can find the class audio and videos here. Encourage your students to use it. They access it following
the instructions found in the card inside the Student’s Book.
TEACHER’S GUIDE We strongly recommend the use of this book which will guide you throughout
the course. Besides the notes corresponding to each unit, you will find interesting and highly useful
photocopiable material to use with your students: grammar, communicative and vocabulary activities. It
also includes the Teacher’s Resource Centre containing all the Student’s Book audio/video files and
scripts, detailed lesson plans from the Teacher’s Guide, answer keys, all the photocopiable activities from
the T’s guide, the Workbook audio files and scripts and Tests and Assessment material.

UNIT TESTS We recommend the Quick and File Tests.

We suggest that you join OXFORD TEACHERS’ CLUB, and click on English File Teacher’s Site for
useful resources. www.oup.com/elt/teacher/englishfile and refer your students to www.oup.com/englishfile

WRITING Consult the Writing Section in the Student's Book.

See 2024 Types of Writing for Teens and Adults on our website.

READER It would be advisable to give students some type of guidance, for instance, pre, while and after
reading activities, content questions, role-playing of important parts of the story, gap-filling, matching
and True-False exercises, etc.

Please help your students develop their reading skills by encouraging them to read the story and
exploit it through different activities: comparing, contrasting, giving opinions and accounting for
them, etc. Do not just ask students to ‘retell’ the story. By no means should you give them just a
summary to study by heart.
Students are expected to read the story at home, not in class
 NOTE FOR THE FINAL TEST

In the exercise on TENSES, students will have to complete the blanks using the correct tense, voice
or verb form.